Cisco Meeting Server Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · Low
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
A vulnerability in the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) feature of Cisco Meeting Server software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition for users of XMPP conferencing applications. Other applications and processes are unaffected. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation of XMPP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted XMPP packets to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause process crashes and a DoS condition for XMPP conferencing applications.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-3160
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-96jq-mvwr-8h4g
References
More Cisco Meeting Server vulnerabilities
- TI-2016-05530 Memory corruption in Cisco Meeting Server before 2.0.3 and Acano Server before 1.9.5 CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2016-05529 Memory corruption in Cisco Meeting Server before 2.0.1, Acano Server before 1.9.3, Cisco… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2018-00239 Improper input validation in Cisco Meeting Server Media Services CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2017-09025 Exposure of resource to wrong sphere in Cisco Meeting Server CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2018-00222 A vulnerability in Cisco Meeting Server could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker… CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.1
- TI-2016-05527 Improper input validation in Cisco Meeting Server before 2.0.6 and Acano Server before… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.1
Sources
- CVE-2020-3160 · CVE Program
- CVE-2020-3160 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-96jq-mvwr-8h4g · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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